[K12OSN] Update from FC2 to FC5 via SSH?

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Thu Aug 10 16:45:39 UTC 2006


On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:43:07 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote
> > It is not a pipe dream, it can just be difficult and risky ;-)
> > 
> > If you want to get *real* fancy, you can learn kickstart and do an
> > unattended upgrade from remote.
> > 
> > Docs:
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-
> > guide/ch-kickstart2.html
> > 
> > GUI front-end:
> > 
> > 	system-config-kickstart
> > 
> > -Eric
> 
> THanks Eric, I am reading the docs right now.  I think this would be 
> awesome to have figured out in the future, it would really help me 
> deploy K12LTSP in other towns where I am not readily available.  I 
> can manage everything remotely other than Version upgrades at this point.

This all seems fairly simple, except I don't understand how to call on the
kickstart file without a local media to boot from and issue the "linux
ks=nfs:<server>:/<path>" command.  

I'll keep reading.

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